How to Use flight plan in a Sentence

flight plan

noun
  • The pilot filed a flight plan before taking off.
  • But there are a few tweaks to the flight plan.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
  • But there are a few tweaks to the flight plan.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 21 May 2026
  • Think of it like a pilot’s black box combined with a flight plan.
    — Wesley Crook, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Airlines will have to reroute or divert flight plans to comply.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Smith did not try to run every truck route or flight plan from Memphis.
    — Yuval Kadmon, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Their original flight plan called for an eight-day stay at the outpost.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The spacewalk is the second of three major goals for the five-day flight plan.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Bombing runs are preprogrammed events, all part of the flight plan.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
  • The black box tells us what happened, but the flight plan tells us what was supposed to happen.
    — Wesley Crook, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This includes flight plan luggage and how long the spray will be left in a vehicle.
    — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Brekke said the pilot had first called in a flight plan listing eight passengers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • But that still wasn’t a flight plan — or even a playbook — to help navigate the challenges of the last year.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2021
  • The global shopping map has been redrawn, and your flight plan may be outdated.
    — Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2025
  • And unexpected changes to the flight plan can ruin your travel plans.
    — Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2023
  • John didn’t register his flight plan, which made the search all the more complicated.
    — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 10 July 2024
  • Following their deaths, the flight plan was redirected.
    — María Verza, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The flight plan, while potentially large in scale, hinges on how Haitians respond.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The Starliner has two test flights planned for later this year — one with crew aboard and one without.
    — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 19 June 2019
  • What differs in the flight plan this time involves the attempts to steer the booster and ship back to Earth.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
  • Even with the flight plans filed, a negotiation with the tanker crew ensues across the radio.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
  • The flight plan calls for Peregrine to touch down after local sunrise at the landing site.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2023
  • The unscheduled flight had just been added to the flight plan the previous Friday.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The markets may see the dangers of the Fed’s flight plan better than the Fed itself.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • All the Enemy of the State crew had to do was file a flight plan and call it a photo mission.
    — Arthur Holland Michel, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2019
  • The flight plan calls for Orion to remain close to Earth for one day before heading to the moon.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The flight plan, while potentially massive in scale, hinges on how Haitians respond.
    — Eric Gay and Elliot Spagat, Chron, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Controllers can transmit flight plans to the craft, but Mars is too far from Earth for direct guidance.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Shannon had filed a flight plan to fly Sunday from Bartow to Key West.
    — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • As of Wednesday at midday, however, there had not yet been any announcements about flight plans.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025

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